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Serbia was ruled by the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries. The Turks persecuted the Serbian aristocracy, determined to physically exterminate the social elite. Since the Ottoman Empire was an Islamic theocratic state, Christian Serbs lived as virtual bond servants - abused, humiliated and exploited. Consequently they gradually abandoned ...
Nov 5, 2009 · Montenegro declared war on October 8, 1912; Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece followed suit nine days later. The outcome of the First Balkan War surprised many, as the combined Balkan forces quickly and ...
The Habsburg forces, unable to sustain their advance, retreated back across the Sava, leaving the native population seriously exposed to Turkish reprisals. In 1691 Archbishop Arsenije III Crnojević of Peć led a migration of 30,000–40,000 Serbs from “Old Serbia” and southern Bosnia across the Danube and Sava.
Direct Ottoman rule also meant the abolition of all Serbian institutions and the return of Ottoman Turks to Serbia. Hadži-Prodan's Revolt (1814) Despite the lost battle, the tensions nevertheless persisted. In 1814 an unsuccessful Hadži Prodan's revolt was launched by Hadži Prodan Gligorijević, one of the veterans of the First Serbian ...
www.serbia.travel IMPRESSUM OTTOMAN CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SERBIA Publisher: National Tourism Organisation of Serbia Čika Ljubina 8, 11 000 Belgrade Tel.: +381 11 6557 100 Fax: +381 11 2626 767 E-mail: office@serbia.travel www.serbia.travel For the publisher: Marija Labović, Director Editor: Smiljana Novičić Text: Prof. Ema Miljković
Revolutionary Serbia (Serbian: Устаничка Србија / Ustanička Srbija), or Karađorđe's Serbia (Serbian: Карађорђева Србија / Karađorđeva Srbija), refers to the state established by the Serbian revolutionaries in Ottoman Serbia (Sanjak of Smederevo) after the start of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1804.
Ottoman Serbia 1371-1804. Chronicle written by an anonymous priest from Duklja. Compiled between 12th and 15th century. While the chronicle was written in this period, much of its content is fictional, but gives insight to a point of view in the Serbian region during this time period. Book contains records made by Achibishop Daniil.
